Table 3 Map with the three key themes and eight subthemes characterizing the provision of palliative care in people with a background of homelessness
From: Access to palliative care for homeless people: complex lives, complex care
Late Access | • difficulties in recognizing need |
• ambivalence towards accepting care | |
• no palliative care facilities | |
Capricious trajectory | • challenging behaviour |
• unpredictable disease progression | |
Complex care | • pain and symptom control |
• psychosocial and spiritual care | |
• social network |